Show WHO PLACE RANGE UNDER FOREST federal reg of public domain would stabilize Uv livestock estock industry it Is believed that public range lands will bo be placed under the control of the for fon it service for supervision and that the free use ox 0 public domain for tho the ranging rani ting of livestock will soon bo be a thing thin of the poet past li is indicated by ril ports from washington this week A bill has been drawn up having as its it purpose the regulation of the public ranee range and it is now being studied by livestock men throughout the wet west it li 1 generally conceded that tho the bill if paced passed will exert a strong influence for the improvement of condition conditions in the livestock industry it would prevent overcrowding over crowding of the winter range ranges oi as li in the case cue in grand county today and would moreover do away with range conflicts between cattle and heep sheep men the following dispatch die patch from washington give gives a summary of the proposed bill washington jan 10 A bill pro posing to turn over to the forest ser ber vice practically all of tho the public ranee land of the west for administration aa as grazing areas within which national forest forests are being ad ministered has been drawn by bt the forest service and is now awaiting introduction in congress A copy of this bill has been given to Re represent presen i colton with the request that he sponsor it U in the house and ana he now has the merix measure ure dundei consideration the bill authorizes the president deril upon petit petition lorl of a majority of it tw 0 stockmen uin any riven given area it of public range to issue a pro clama lion ton making area a grazing die dis brict and when a district is thus created it wih be administered by the forest ivee the forest service to issue grazing permits for period not exceeding ten years upon the payment annually of reasonable fees for such peri permit nit the fees to be fixed by y the secretary of agriculture the q final section of the bill bilk provides that thal where the objects and purposes W ot this act can be most effectively ac complis hed by the addition to national forests of lands of the character herein hemin described tho the president in U hereby authorized to add such 4 lands land to national forests by proclamation or executive order and the lands so added shall shrill be subject to all laws aws and regulations applicable to the ha national forests in presenting the bill to mr hir col ton on the forest service said its itt idea 14 was to exact less fees c en the present 4 public range based u on fees tia that hare have been charged for national nat lonal forest range in the past but the proviso just jt quoted would bring a large grazing area into the national for desits and these lands when added would IH be subject to the fees here after determined for national forest range upon the basis laid secretary wallace earlier thi at the national livestock convent convention loa at omaha twenty five per cent of the fees derived from permit tees on lea leased public range would under the bull bill be tamed over to the states in which the lands are situated for their ther school funds another 25 per cent would be used by the forest service for range improvements and the balance would go into the federals fed erali treasury trec sury under the bill lands found uit suit able for irrigation or homesteading homes leading could be included in the grazing districts but subject al a all times to entry or use for irrigation or grazing the bill also contains the provision that miring prospecting etc will bo be permitted in the grazing districts that driving of livestock over leased areas may be permitted under regulation preference right to lease the grazing districts woud would be given thoe living in the vicinity of the lands land 4 the bill further authorizes the secretary of ot agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements with any stale state corpo corporation rution or individual who Is i the owner of enate lands plying adjacent to or included wilbia the al grazing districts to those i I 1 private areas arvas under millet regulations which will be applicable also to tso 60 public lands within such duan districts r acts ay iy o 0 frank A jugler the interests of W J parker of OR att ss nn am arrival evaer evA evening nr to attend to business matters athe v particular purpose of mattica ar V 0 9 visit Is to attend tho th salo sale O 0 ocal 1 I real estate including the rayer banch schou schouler led to take place i k j A MM tl fib kumf iu Mf |